it allows for non-custodial release for individuals who may otherwise be held in custody. then we have one final slide showing demographic data on who is on electronic monitoring by housing status, gender, and age. that is really the end of this presentation, but before i conclude, i want to add again what i said the last time. there is a larger question of effectiveness of electronic monitoring in this office and the sheriff's office is interested in looking at that. if we just go back to the report on the closure, there was a recommendation that the city should review research on the effectiveness of the electronic monitoring and the impact on the population. this office is working with the california policy lab, an arm of u.c. berkeley to evaluate

electronic monitoring and they have a strong partnership with the california department of justice where we can get more data. and they just received their research ethics approval for this study so we will be moving forward and we expect to have the study completed in about a year. we're interest in the larger question that chair fewer mentioned about electronic monitoring. that's all i have, thank you. >> thank you very much. any comments or questions from my colleagues on item number one in the presentation? seeing none, let's move on to item number two, which is a hearing on electronic monitoring. so i like to first call up chief miller from the juvenile probation department. >> good morning, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i just have a few slides and

i'll be brief. please let me know that you see it. >> yes, it's visible, can you make it larger? >> yes, how is that? >> that's perfect. >> thanks chair fewer. so good morning everybody, nice to see you. i have a few slides. it's a quick run through on how we use electronic monitoring and the juvenile system. i know that the bulk of your discussion today is focused on the adult system, but we're happy to be in the conversation. we in san francisco, we only use electronic monitoring for our kids with a court order. the court may order kids be placed on electronic monitoring as an alternative to detention, which is preadjudication. electronic monitoring also may be added as a condition of

probation. so sometimes it's also used as a step up and added layer of supervision for a youth rather than doing a probation violation or having them detained. electronic monitoring can be impos imposed at the request on se self -- several parties. probation may do a request as part of a person's plan. there are some instances where the district attorney's office requests it. there are some cases where

defense council if they consider that a necessary element for the release. there is also a situation where the parent may ask for it. i bring that up because before we were together a few weeks ago, we had that a couple days ago where the parent asked the judge to have it be part of their release plan. we refer to electronic monitoring as a program at juvenile probation. when a judge is considering ordering it, we ask that the young person be ordered into the program, not just ordered to have electronic monitoring. the court can impose just an e.m. order itself from which it means that the court has a discretion to remove it. if the youth is ordered into the program, it gives probation the

ability to remove the device for certain kinds of circumstances and the best example are things like sports games, prom, when young people do things like go on camping trips with the department and other stakeholders. there are a variety of things included in the program. they're looking at curfew, and are they suppose to be where they are during their curfew time, inclusion zones, specific areas where they can be homeschooled back in the days when we went to school, work and then there are exclusion zones, that's programed into their electronic profile and then the

schedule like school attendance, jobs, and participation in a variety of programs. the way we do electronic monitoring on the juvenile side is different than in adults. it's not monitored in live time. we have a dedicated electronic monitoring probation officer who receives the data from the previous day from all the youths and reviews that data and communicates with the peers as appropriate. so he's going through the data and looking at each young person's conditions that are on the screen and letting the probation officer know if something is happening outside of the allowed parameters. i just want to note that for kids in the city, e.m. is always going to be used in addition to other programs and services. so for example, a lot of kids

need the recording center until 8:00 at night. these are on the days when we're out and about. e.m. will be used for after that, after the program is closed. the last thing is a little bit of data for you. as part of the presentation we give to the juvenile probation commission, the monitoring usage. we are one month behind on it, so i'm sure the report we gave at our last report. so, this takes us through september, just so you can see the numbers. it's mostly i wanted to show it to you so you can see what the curb looks like during shelter-in-place last spring. so you can see that we really spiked up in numbers, kind of between march and may. there were a few reasons for that. one was that the court was really working hard to really

minimize the number of kids in custody at that time. so there were some situations where the clerk released kids that outside of pandemic times they may have kept in custody longer waiting for placement. so the court increased the usage for releasing kids. then in the second thing that happened, a lot of cases got kicked out into the summer, right? so both in our adult and juvenile system. people out of custody, cases got delayed. so just delayed a number of kids coming off electronic monitoring and their cases got resolved. you can see that those numbers came back down again in the summer months. as of mid-november, the last too many i looked at the data preparing for this conversation this morning, we had 17 kids on electronic monitoring. i want to acknowledge that's about 4% of the total number of kids who are working with the

probation department. ten of those kids are preadjudication, seven were on probation already. three of the kids were on home detention and electronic monitoring, so the clerk used those things in concert with each other. so far this year, we had about 130 unique kids on electronic monitoring over the course of the years. 80% boys, 20% girls, so that percentage of boys is higher on electronic monitoring relative to our overall case load. then the ethnic break down was 50% african american, 6% white, and that's representative of our case load. the last thing i will note is we have an alcohol monitoring program as well, it's a separate device. that's used very rarely in juvenile probation. to date we had five use this year who have been on alcohol

monitoring. i am happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any comment? supervisor walton. >> thank you so much director miller. i appreciate the presentation. i do have a couple of questions. my first one is j.p.d. is only using electronic monitoring if the court forces usage, the attorney and the parent? >> no, there are times when we will be asking for it as part of a proposed release for supervision plan. there are times when we go to court and suggest in lieu of a young person being returned to custody or violated for their probation. so, there are times when probation is offered as a step up as part of the young person's response. the court makes the decision whether or not to authorize it. we will be recommending it to the clerk and then only if the

clerk does it get approved. >> and what's the cost per youth on electronic monitoring? >> so the cost per use is $15 per day, per use. do you want me to give you the quick and dirty on the contract we have? would that be helpful, the cost parameters? >> sure. >> so we have -- our contract is with scrum of california. it's a three year contract. it runs through the coming june, 2021. we have two more options to renew it, two more years after this. it's $15 per day, per use. the full amount of the contract is $554,000, so we can spend up to that amount. right now we have about 100,000 remaining. so in this fiscal year of 19-20,

we spent about $55,000 over the course of the year for it. >> so the youth are not on the hook for any of the payment? >> correct. >> thank you. >> sure. i would just add that we use a state grant fund that we get to cover the cost of it. >> thank you director miller. >> sure. >> supervisor mandelman. >> i guess -- i mean this is -- i was planning to ask these questions in the use for adult, but i guess it matters for youths as well. whether are these things effective, which they're mitigating -- you know, identifying the risk that we're trying to mitigate using electronic monitoring with adults in the jail population. i'm curious how we think about whether that, whether those monitors are actually mitigating

those risks. i mean the consequence of there not being a successful risk mitigation measure kind of doesn't necessarily lead to an obvious conclusion. i mean it could mean that we're releasing people who we shouldn't be rather than we ought to be releasing people without anything. i'm curious in the youth context, how do you think about effectiveness of these -- is it in a position where you have enough data to think about are these electronic monitoring devices getting us things we care about. >> those are excellent questions supervis supervisor. it's on our list for data analysis work i want to do and we want to do. so we done a fair amount -- >> what a year. >> it's not over yet. don't say that.

you know, it is absolutely a question for me. so, how often is it effective? how often are kids removing it? i will tell you, we have a fair number of cases, a significant number of cases where kids take it off quite quickly after release. i would just remind all of us that these are devices that have to be removable. we wouldn't want a device that couldn't be safely be removed. that's the flip side. so it's something that we're just starting to talk about, how to analyze, i would say, it's something that we should be looking at as a part of this much larger conversation around juvenile justice in the city and those things you said are absolute concerns i hear coming up in conversation. if we use it in a way to feel like we're safely releasing the young person, it doesn't stay charged or stay on them, then you know are we creating a situation of risk? on the counter side, how are we

making sure we're not turning release into jails without walls? for me, we need to look at the data so we can tell you where along the continuums it lies and whether there are more effective ways for us to be supervising and supporting our kids. decease part -- it is part of a larger plan for kids. how do the pieces fit together for a young person to give them what they need to make good choices in the moment. i do think it's interesting that parents ask for it sometimes. i will say antidotally, i had some kids say to us that when they have one on, it gives them what they need to say no in some situations. >> no, i'm not going with you right now. >> exactly. you know, i think we should hear from all the voices of people impacted by learning them. so i think it's part of what the larger conversation we need to

be having right now, but we don't have that kind of data for you at the ready right now. >> all right, thank you director. >> thank you director and chief and i think that is the data at the crux of it today. it's about electronic monitoring and through our conversations and item number one, i think that we -- that is sort of the data. the -- there are other things we are doing that have much more efficacy and are better tools. also, i think we are in agreement that we want less of our youth incarcerated so confidence in the courts to release from incarcerations some of these youths and without the electronic mron monitoring and what is the data that shows this is much more effective than electronic monitoring? i think we will have used this

electronic monitoring and what we're discoussing is the efficay of it. is it better to have a deeper conversation with people who are important in their lives to them, that a mother knows or partner knows, or child knows. it can help keep people on track of having people show up. any way. this is super helpful. chief thank you very much. again, thank you for bringing this information to us and also for having sort of the resolve to say yeah, is this the best use of funds and is this the best way we can service our youth. i think that is sort of the probing question that we should only ask, so we're so thrilled that you're joining us.

>> thank you chair. >> let's call up now the chief for the adult probation department that also uses electronic monitoring. it's so good to see you again. >> thank you so much supervisors. thank you for having us. this is such an important topic and we're happy to participate in the discussion. we're going to put up our slides. okay, move to the first slide please. so the policy statement for adult probation with regards to the use of electronic monitoring is certainly utilized in two ways. the overarching goal is to utilize electronic monitoring to monitor probation claims in the community with the objective of reducing an overreliance on incarceration and enhancing public safety. we use it in two ways as i

mentioned. first of all, probation officers can utilize electronic monitoring as a graduated sanction. so if somebody is struggling under supervision, we may opt to place somebody on electronic monitoring, rather than filing a motion to revoke and returning somebody back to court and possibly returning them to custody. so we use that as a least restrictive alternative. there are times when the court will order electronic monitoring as a condition of probation supervision and most certainly this is an effort to keep people out of custody by using the least restrictive alternative. sometimes it's also used in conjunction with negotiated pleas, when they're attempting to settle a case with the court and the clients and they are agreeing to electronic monitoring. so it's used in those two ways. in addition to electronic monitoring, much like juvenile

probation, we use the alcohol monitoring unit as well in appropriate cases. next slide please. so in determining the use of electronic monitoring, it's important to consider a client's suitability for the program. so the analysis of suitability includes the client's risk of recidivi recidivism, their criminal history, their ability to programs and services, their capacity to comply with the programs, and their past performance on supervision and statutory requirement related to sex offender registrants. if individuals for a certain risk level is 6 or more on a static 99 tool for sex offenders, they are required by statute to be placed on electronic monitoring. next slide please. to share with you some of the